Marriage & Partnership: Wedding Quotes

Explore a thoughtful selection of wedding quotes that honor love, commitment, and the joy of bringing two lives together. These lines range from timeless classics to contemporary expressions, offering gentle inspiration for vows, toasts, and keepsakes. Whether you are planning a ceremony, writing a card, or seeking words that resonate, you will find sentiments that balance romance with sincerity. Use them to capture the spirit of partnership, celebrate meaningful milestones, and share heartfelt encouragement with couples, families, and friends.

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"A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers"

Grace Hansen, Writer

"A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers"

Eddie Cantor, Comedian

"In the '50s, a lot of girls never saw beyond the wedding day"

Helen Reddy, Actress

"Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder"

Jonathan Swift, Writer

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"Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always"

Dante Alighieri, Poet

"I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all"

Queen Victoria, Royalty

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"O month when they who love must love and wed"

Helen Hunt Jackson, Writer

"Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own"

Ethel Merman, Musician

"Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition"

Samuel Pepys, Writer

"When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn't find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I wanted. That's when I saw the opportunity for a wedding gown business"

Vera Wang, Designer

"For her fifth wedding, the bride wore black and carried a scotch and soda"

Phyllis Battelle, Journalist

"A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast"

Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist

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"Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

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"You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate"

Pope John Paul II, Clergyman

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"I did get to keep the wedding dresses from 'Runaway Bride'. They're all boxed up in my garage. I've never opened them. It'll be fun one day when Hazel is taller. She can play dress-up with her friends"

Julia Roberts, Actress

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"In my 50s I'll be dancing at my children's weddings"

Michael J. Fox, Actor

"Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

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"A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes"

Joseph Addison, Writer

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"The most dangerous food is wedding cake"

James Thurber, Comedian

"Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle"

Heinrich Heine, Poet

"A ring is a halo on your finger"

Doug Coupland, Author

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"A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting"

Helen Rowland, Journalist

"Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise"

John Heywood, Dramatist

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"I always wanted to get married with just candles! I think candlelight is the most beautiful light there is and there's something very spiritual about it"

Nicole Kidman, Actress

"An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court"

William Feather, Author

"I'd imagine my wedding as a fairy tale... huge, beautiful and white"

Paris Hilton, Celebrity

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"I think that weddings have probably been crashed since the beginning of time. Cavemen crashed them. You go to meet girls. It makes sense"

Christopher Walken, Actor

"It happened in Miami, in Coral Gables, a great big ol' Cuban wedding. It was pretty intense"

Jon Secada, Musician

"The press is just not your friend when it comes to a marriage. That's why we didn't sell the pictures of our wedding, and we got offered millions of dollars for them, millions"

Katy Perry, Musician

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"You may invite the entire 35th Division to your wedding if you want to. I guess it's going to be yours as well as mine. We might as well have the church full while we are at it"

Bess Truman, First Lady

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"I hadn't been in Vegas 20 minutes when I got word that the bookmakers were offering three to one that Frank wouldn't show for my wedding"

Sammy Davis, Jr., Entertainer

"When he came back from downtown, he had forgotten to bring his license, his identification, the $2 for the wedding license. So we got married two days later"

Eydie Gorme, Musician

"When Andrew went with the girls, we were talking all morning and he was saying, 'It's okay. Just remember we had such a good day. Our wedding was so perfect.' Because we're such a unit together. He made me feel very part of the day on April the 29th"

Sarah Ferguson, Author

"If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable"

George Ade, Playwright

"Well, I'll tell you something, this wedding is something that I will always, always cherish. It was a show of love and support and kindness like I'd never seen from the people, and that's who I entertain. I entertain the people"

Liza Minnelli, Actress

"I sang a song at my sister's wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right"

Adam Sandler, Actor

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"My fiancee and I recently eloped. We went on a fabulous honeymoon to Europe, and I was able to see and do everything I wanted without worrying about taking it easy"

Lee Majors, Actor

"All weddings, except those with shotguns in evidence, are wonderful"

Liz Smith, Journalist

"I have married thriteen couples. I'm about to do a marriage next month"

Sally Kirkland, Actress

"A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns"

Marguerite Young, Author

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